In the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex episode "¥$," Android maids patrol inside the mansion of the millionaire Kanemoto Yokose. They also act as security, as they have weapons systems hidden inside their bodies, but this doesn't help them deter either Motoko and the Tachikoma or the assassin Fem. They continue to carry out their duties, completely unaware that their owner has long since passed away in his bed.

Tom Strong had a steam powered robot butler whose speech came from wax cylinder recordings of his father: Pneuman, short for Pneumatic Man. He's actually a little bit older than the 100-year-old Tom. He was always bickering with Tom's intelligent monkey caddy Solomon, who serves a decidedly similar function.

Somewhat deconstructed in a Disney Comics story where Gyro Gearloose makes a fortune selling a series of robots, each tailored to a specific household chore (such as a gardening robot, a cleaning robot, a laundry robot, a cooking robot, etc). When he is asked why not a single Robot Maid, he replies that individual household chores require substantial specialization not possible with a generic robot and this approach has the added bonus of being able to accomplish several tasks at once. Unfortunately, said robots also consume a huge amount of power and the sheer demand causes the price of electricity to spike and all the robots to be returned, restoring the status quo.

The X-Men had Nanny, who sported a maid outfit in most incarnations. She took her job too seriously.

The Fantastic Four have a robot receptionist named Roberta. In the non-canonical Fin Fang Four stories, she's the girlfriend of shrunken-giant-robot Elektro. It's very cute.

Robojeeves the robot butler in Ducktalez 6. He even has the stereotype of having Jeeves in his name.

Films — Live-Action

At the end of Spaceballs, the spaceship Spaceball One transforms into Mega Maid, a giant robot maid with a vacuum cleaner to suck the planet Druidia's air through an opening in its force shield.

Runaway (1984). A robot maid looks after the protagonist's son, giving him a rundown on his eating habits and whether he's watching videos after bedtime.

Sleeper: Domestic servant robots are a major business in 2173... rogue cryogenically unfrozen Woody Allen disguises himself as one to avoid capture.

Robot and Frank starts off with Frank Weld, retired cat burglar, getting a robot maid... and he begins to teach it his old craft.

Kyoko from Ex Machina performs the housekeeping duties of a maid, and is in fact a robot.

French/Italian film Catherine and I is about a businessman whose macho attitude causes him problems with women. One day he buys a robot maid (the titular Catherine) and is so satisfied with her that he tells his wife, lover and (human) maid to get lost. Unfortunately Catherine starts to act jealous towards him...

Literature

Discworld golems are basically robots, so we naturally end up with a golem designated as a maid. Well, a secretary. A giant clay secretary in a blue gingham dress named Gladys. And since golems are not used to having a gender identity of any description, Hilarity Ensues.

"Flexible Frank", the non-humanoid housekeeping robot in Robert A. Heinlein's The Door Into Summer.

Kryten from Red Dwarf. (The fact that his mental abilities go far beyond the cleaning and catering duties for which he was built is sort-of noticed by the crew in series 8, but they put it down to a malfunction.)

The Night Gallery episode "You Can't Get Help Like That Anymore" involves a couple buying and abusing a robot maid.

Whodunnit? (UK): In "Future Imperfect" (set in the year 2076), the family possesses a robot servant called Mister Seven who is reprogrammed to murder the head of the family.

Jonathan Coulton's song "Todd the T1000" is about a guy who feels threatened by his robot butler.

Todd the T1000 scares me I don't think he knows I've got a right to exist And he sits in my favorite chair and dares me And when I look over he is making a fist

Hawkwind's Spirit of the Age, nominating the shortcomings of a different sort of robot maid:

Your android replica is playing up again, it's no joke; When she comes she moans another's name - Is that the spirit of the age?

Radio

The The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy tells the cautionary tale of what happened on the planet Brontitall, where the human(oid) inhabitants realised they'd devolved too much power to robot servants, were almost nothing without them, and rebelled against the machines, rounding up all their servant robots so as to exile them to a penal planet where they would be kept gainfully employed knitting "continent toupees" for planets that had denuded all their rainforest. The sound-picture is painted of bewildered robots asking if they have failed in some way and not pleased their human masters, have they not Shared and Enjoyed, what can they do to put it right, as their captors whip them into line for exile.

Classic Traveller. Robots could have a Valet program that allowed them to act as maids. The adventure "Research Station Gamma" had maintenance (cleaning) robots.

Top Secret (TSR). The "Dr. Yes" module in Dragon #48 had the Bernie, a hemispherical robot that could act as a vacuum cleaner, trash compactor, and stereo. It could also mop and wax the floor.

Any Robot Girl in Maid RPG will be one due to the nature of the game. Robot Butlers are also possible.

Big Eyes, Small Mouth has a "Robot Maid" template. It's got a number of upsides... but it also comes with the "Owned" disadvantage.

Champions adventure The Island of Dr. Destroyer. The title character's secret base has cleaning robots.

Robot Maids are one of the many forms of robots available in Shadowrun.

DC Heroes has a maintenance robot called the Clyde that can perform mediocre housekeeping.

Theme Parks

The former Horizons ride at Epcot had a robot butler that could be seen vacuuming the floors. Space Mountain at Magic Kingdom also features a robot butler in its post-show, as a tribute to the closed attraction.

After his accident on the Thunder Tower, Fassad (you may also know him as Yokuba) gets a robot translator, seeing as his mouth is stuffed with trumpets on his "reassembly".

(Classic) Roll in the Mega Man games was designed to be one of these for Dr Light.

Tesse from Waku Waku 7 is, well, a robot maid who serves her creator, "the Doctor."

The Sims 2: Open for Business allows talented Sims to creates Servos and imprint them with their personalities. An active Servo autonomously cleans, gardens, repairs broken household items and cooks, often desserts. Your Sims will get fat, and you may also get a craving for berry pie.

The new Clockwork robots in City of Heroes are essentially this for the whole of Praetoria and can often seen vaccuming parks and streets, or carrying heavy supplies for building. Of course, they are armed to the teeth should the pesky trouble maker try to pick a fight with them.

The "Mister Handy" style robots in Fallout 3 fill this role. You can even get one yourself when you get your own house. He doesn't like you very much, but he's usually good at hiding it.

When you present her the maid uniform to equip, Aigis of Persona 3 clearly states that it's the one she already wore before at the lab. In other words, the super-powerful battle android that she is also acted as an obedient maid servant before you found her (and can continue so even afterward).

In Pokémon X and Y, one of the "Maid" trainers you fight in the Battle Chateau speaks like one.

Julia: "I WAS CREATED SOLELY TO DO BATTLE..."

GUNBare!Game Tengoku's fifth level boss is a giant mecha in the form of a cute robot maid.

Web Comics

Some of the Chibi style AnthroPCs in Questionable Content are designed with limited housekeeping abilities.

The furry comic O, Robot! starts with the purchase of a robot vixen maid whose owner names her "Robota" and initially uses her to clean the house and fetch cheetos, then his technophilic girlfriend starts tinkering with her.

Web Original

Ask Dr. Eldritch has Helen, the Doctor's "housekeeper". The Doctor insists that she's not a Sexbot — just ignore the fact that he openly sleeps with her.

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